Standing underneath the Metro-North tracks at 125 St on Thursday, (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz hailed “a historic moment” — the introduction to the state Assembly of a bill which would establish his congestion pricing plan.

Schwartz, the former city traffic commissioner, has been pitching Move NY for years. The basic idea is to raise tolls on drivers crossing the East River and going below 60th Street and to lower them in the outer boroughs. This would, the argument goes, provide capital funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and roadways, and also reduce traffic.

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Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, the sponsor of A09633, said that the plan could help fund the next phase of the Second Avenue subway, as well as other transit projects.

“We’re standing blocks away from where the Second Avenue subway was supposed to be built,” said Rodriguez, who represents East Harlem. “Communities like this one in Harlem and the Bronx are trailing behind.”

“Look around: 125th Street could be the next transit hub, connecting Metro-North and the subway,” he said. “This gives us an opportunity to think about how we expand our MTA system.”

Albany, however, has historically been unfriendly to congestion pricing plans. Former speaker Sheldon Silver killed one of former mayor Michael Bloomberg's in 2012. (Bloomberg later backed Schwartz’s plan.)

More recently, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said Albany has “no appetite” for the plan, which he himself has been noncommittal on.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said about the same thing, though “on the merits you can argue it.”